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Post by grahamthomson on Nov 19, 2008 8:59:33 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 19, 2008 11:38:28 GMT
Hurray for science!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 19, 2008 12:25:42 GMT
Excellent news.
Andy
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Post by legios on Nov 19, 2008 12:49:55 GMT
That is a great step forward. Considering the toll that anti-rejection meds take on a patients immune system, if we can get to the stage that we are using tissue that genetically "belongs" the individual and thereby obviate the need to use them then this has to be a good thing.
Karl
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Post by kayevcee on Nov 19, 2008 13:16:54 GMT
Awesome beyond words. Speaking from experience, stem cell harvests (with circa 1999 technology) are not fun procedures, but the whole process is over in a few weeks and considering the difference their use has made to this woman's life, and might make to the field of organ transplantation in the future, the whole shebang is totally worth it.
Whoever is overseeing these projects, give these guys all the money and resources they ask for!
-Nick
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 19, 2008 14:20:05 GMT
Incredible. Fantastic advancement.
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Post by Bogatan on Nov 19, 2008 15:25:49 GMT
I'm thrown, I was expecting tissue paper and it's engineering developements.
This is much better.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 19, 2008 20:47:56 GMT
Good.
But disappointed at that committee coming down against opt-out for organ donation earlier in the week. Hate living in a society that assumes by default that I don't want to help someone live after I die, unless I say specifically that I do. But we went through all that in another thread.
Martin
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Post by karla on Nov 19, 2008 22:49:30 GMT
well it seems perfectly fine to me to grow your own trachea, or string some hula hoops together. soon we'll have kits to grow your own organ  but i'm not to excited about washing it down with enzymes, that would make me cry, those little buggers scare me. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2008 18:40:49 GMT
I'm thrown, I was expecting tissue paper and it's engineering developements. I was expecting the same. I thought this was one of those bizarre threads we normally discuss and I expected it to be an insight at a Kleenex factory. |
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Post by Dark Stranger on Nov 21, 2008 12:45:52 GMT
BUT- playing devil's advocate here, as I think it's a great development- is this another step towards overpopulating the planet even more?
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 21, 2008 17:59:44 GMT
People will always find a way to reproduce.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 21, 2008 19:32:56 GMT
BUT- playing devil's advocate here, as I think it's a great development- is this another step towards overpopulating the planet even more? This story is mainly about saving the life of a living human being, not creating new ones. I have more mixed feelings about scientific advances aimed at creating more babies than there would be otherwise. Having children isn't a fundamental human right in my opinion. Martin |
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Post by Dark Stranger on Nov 22, 2008 19:53:12 GMT
I was meaning more that, in the future, more people's lives will be saved with tissue engineering, thus prolonging people's lives, increasing overcrowding. Is it cold-blooded to look at this as a bad thing, with the growing "grey towns" full of old people needing constant care?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 28, 2013 18:49:29 GMT
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Post by kayevcee on Aug 28, 2013 19:45:55 GMT
Mind boggling indeed. A pity they can't use them to model the effects of drugs on a working brain.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2013 19:59:31 GMT
I can show you some places in Edinburger if you want to see that.
-Ralph
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